'Conversations with Gamechangers: Solidarity Economy Strategies for a New and Better World' is an online series of conversations with radical grass-roots solidarity economy organisations across the world who are breaking new ground in their own contexts while building power in their communities.
Our first event features Cooperation Jackson, an emerging cooperative network situated firmly within the struggle for Black liberation and self-determination. Its mission is to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi, the poorest state in the union of the United States, whose majority Black population face chronic unemployment and impoverishment. Cooperation Jackson are building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises that are rooted in social movements and people’s assemblies.
Saturday 10 September 2022
16:00 – 18:00 BST (UTC+1) | 10:00 – 12:00 CDT (UTC-5)
Book a ticket for the Cooperation Jackson event here.
https://www.solidarityeconomy.coop/projects/conversations-with-gamechangers
Within the scope of these webinars, we will also be speaking with Aboriya Jin, part of the Kongra Star women's movement in North and East Syria (Rojava); Grassroots Liberation, a movement organising in the ghettos of Nairobi, Kenya; Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee, organising Dalit landless farmers in the Punjab region of India, and Guerrilla Translation, building a new democratic economy model of cooperatives for translation workers to sustain themselves while internationalising knowledge produced for liberation.
Each organisation is organising on a different continent, with different strategies but the same aim: liberation, autonomy and self-determination.
Hosted by Solidarity Economy Association and the Translation Commune, each webinar will include multilingual translation and interpretation, to share and internationalise local knowledge, experience and strategy.
These events will take place monthly on the second Saturday of each month between 15:00-17:00 UTC on Zoom, with live simultaneous interpretation in Arabic, English, French, Kurdish (Kurmancî), Punjabi, Spanish and Turkish.
